''The Well Below'' is a four-song EP by

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-based

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band

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, its eighth collection of new material. It includes a cover of Appalachian folk singer

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's "Wedding Dress" as well as the band's take on Irish songwriter

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's murder ballad "The Well Below the Valley." Critical reception to the album was positive. ''Huffington Post'' writer Stephen Winick called the band "a cooler, more American alternative to the

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, more skilled at their instruments, with more pure traditional music on one end and more rock electricity on the other," and praised their "hair-raising" and "foreboding" take on "The Well Below the Valley" and "rich, complex arrangement" of the Holcomb song. David Hintz of ''FolkWorld'' stated that the album "has the exotic flair we

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all come to expect from this band."

Track listing

References

2012 EPs Boiled in Lead albums Celtic rock albums {{2010s-album-stub